Tonight's Dinner: Kale pesto pizza recipe

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Kale pesto makes a healthy pizza sauce

Pesto is a great sauce over pasta and meat. But use it as a pizza sauce and you've got a healthy dinner the kids won't be able to get enough of.

My family is a big fan of pizza. Usually it's pepperoni, sausage and mushrooms, but every so often, we'll mix things up by adding extra tomatoes or using a new and inventive type of sauce. Recently, Parents magazine had a recipe for a pesto pizza that used pesto and naan for its sauce and crust. My whole family loves naan and I thought the pesto would be a delicious alternative to the standard tomato sauce.

But since I've been trying different pesto recipes and I wanted to guarantee that my son would eat the pizza, I didn't want to use your basic basil pesto. Luckily Stacie over at One Hungry Mama had a kale pesto that sounded amazing, and since I'm attempting to be a little healthier, I decided to give her pesto a try. It was delicious! Topping it with some Italian cheeses and heirloom cherry tomatoes made for a pizza that I not only loved and will make again and again, but had my son begging for seconds as well.